http://www.thirdeyemag.com Using Creativity to Build Better Communities Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:03:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://www.thirdeyemag.com/literature/poetry/soulless/ http://www.thirdeyemag.com/literature/poetry/soulless/#comments Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:03:36 +0000 Ramla Alethea http://www.thirdeyemag.com/?p=292 A life lived on the bleeding edge Fragmented phantasms of failed attempts At breaking out At playing the escape artist]]> http://www.thirdeyemag.com/literature/poetry/soulless/feed/ 0 http://www.thirdeyemag.com/literature/poetry/the-end-of-unhappiness-and-tears/ http://www.thirdeyemag.com/literature/poetry/the-end-of-unhappiness-and-tears/#comments Sun, 20 Sep 2009 22:59:36 +0000 Trent Reker http://www.thirdeyemag.com/?p=241 the end of the soulless the end of the corporate end of the bureaucratic time bomb death by waking every day to do it again the end of lawsuit threats of accusations]]> http://www.thirdeyemag.com/literature/poetry/the-end-of-unhappiness-and-tears/feed/ 0 http://www.thirdeyemag.com/literature/poetry/monkey-dont/ http://www.thirdeyemag.com/literature/poetry/monkey-dont/#comments Sun, 09 Dec 2007 21:12:18 +0000 David Blaine http://www.thirdeyemag.com/literature/poetry/monkey-dont/ The quadrennial quandary, choosing between the lesser of two lechers as they bisect bilateral boundaries, splitting atoms and Adams, exporting Middle America in the making of little Americas. [...]]]> http://www.thirdeyemag.com/literature/poetry/monkey-dont/feed/ 1 http://www.thirdeyemag.com/literature/poetry/a-toast-to-modern-beauty/ http://www.thirdeyemag.com/literature/poetry/a-toast-to-modern-beauty/#comments Tue, 04 Sep 2007 06:40:53 +0000 Rachael St. John http://www.thirdeyemag.com/literature/poetry/a-toast-to-modern-beauty/ Lies, Deceit, Shame in defeat Trading lives for moments of glory One by one the morals diminish Eating themselves alive Intimidated by the impending doom. The human race is left with Only pieces of its broken word and The horrors that penetrated the useless defenses Because nobody was valiant enough to Believe in the darkness, in the cold [...]]]> http://www.thirdeyemag.com/literature/poetry/a-toast-to-modern-beauty/feed/ 1 http://www.thirdeyemag.com/literature/poetry/to-know-it-young/ http://www.thirdeyemag.com/literature/poetry/to-know-it-young/#comments Mon, 03 Sep 2007 16:58:40 +0000 Derrick Mund http://www.thirdeyemag.com/literature/poetry/to-know-it-young/ Rusted globs roll boorishly from the roof, collect, glimmer, and fall seven flights to pulse squandered rhythm onto the alley. But oh, to know it young like a Beat ideal. To speak in the loosened voice of nowhere glances. To say, “Typhoon with nothing short of screams for all this beautiful young life that drowns in cirrhosis like cheap wine.” [...]]]> http://www.thirdeyemag.com/literature/poetry/to-know-it-young/feed/ 0 http://www.thirdeyemag.com/literature/poetry/the-red-white-and-blue/ http://www.thirdeyemag.com/literature/poetry/the-red-white-and-blue/#comments Wed, 04 Jul 2007 20:35:36 +0000 Melissa Dey Hasbrook http://www.thirdeyemag.com/literature/poetry/the-red-white-and-blue/ In the U.S.A., we ignore our reflection on the TV screen while we grit thirty minutes of sound bites each night, Scraps of stories served between drug ads from a buffet of Rx’s to help us EAT SLEEP SHIT PISS [...]]]> http://www.thirdeyemag.com/literature/poetry/the-red-white-and-blue/feed/ 0 http://www.thirdeyemag.com/literature/poetry/dont-blink-or-youll-miss-it/ http://www.thirdeyemag.com/literature/poetry/dont-blink-or-youll-miss-it/#comments Wed, 04 Jul 2007 12:29:30 +0000 Abraham Morrison http://www.thirdeyemag.com/literature/poetry/dont-blink-or-youll-miss-it-the-truth/ Screams erupt from beneath our lead heel That will not be silenced with another dollar bill. The façade of our benevolence falls to reveal A brutal corporate army moving in for the kill. With economic warfare we do our fathers proud, [...] ]]> http://www.thirdeyemag.com/literature/poetry/dont-blink-or-youll-miss-it/feed/ 0 http://www.thirdeyemag.com/literature/poetry/white-wings/ http://www.thirdeyemag.com/literature/poetry/white-wings/#comments Thu, 03 May 2007 18:28:43 +0000 Lucy Hough http://www.thirdeyemag.com/literature/poetry/white-wings/ The silver band of my ring flashes across the bare skin of these walls. Eyes, desperate, yearning, coat my thoughts and ask me questions. I open my mouth wondering but the words are tied and knotted in my throat, strapped and bound – my eyes. [...]]]> http://www.thirdeyemag.com/literature/poetry/white-wings/feed/ 0 http://www.thirdeyemag.com/literature/poetry/feeding-the-demon/ http://www.thirdeyemag.com/literature/poetry/feeding-the-demon/#comments Thu, 03 May 2007 07:35:30 +0000 Ramla Alethea http://www.thirdeyemag.com/wordpress/2007/05/03/feeding-the-demon/ An unrelenting self-projected psychosis Filling up inner-cavities with shadow A darkness An unforgiving introspective tirade The bandages are breaking apart Applied haphazardly No sense of permanence ever intended Doled out with a daily routine of decadence]]> http://www.thirdeyemag.com/literature/poetry/feeding-the-demon/feed/ 0 http://www.thirdeyemag.com/literature/poetry/the-origin-of-species/ http://www.thirdeyemag.com/literature/poetry/the-origin-of-species/#comments Wed, 03 Jan 2007 19:03:22 +0000 M. Alan Cox http://www.thirdeyemag.com/literature/poetry/the-origin-of-species/ Life on Earth began as a gum wrapper made of aluminum, lying on a sidewalk; several stalks of peppermint grew inside it. Human life began as a series of interruptions in global telecommunications—later explained as Sun spots. Our primary line of flight extends from a point (a mole on god’s face) and eventually intersects with a moment where it properly becomes an actual line of flight instead of a romantic novel: a caterpillar is simply a caterpillar—it’s not a moth. [...]]]> http://www.thirdeyemag.com/literature/poetry/the-origin-of-species/feed/ 0